Keith Whittington is joined by Sunil Amrith, the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University and a leader of the Yale chapter of the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR). SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom, in part by arranging temporary academic positions for individuals facing grave threats at their home institutions and countries. Professor Amrith discusses the program, its history, its recent Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and the challenges facing academic freedom across the globe.

Keith Whittington is joined by Greg Greubel, a senior attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and one of the lead attorneys who argued the case against Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act restrictions of faculty speech in public university classrooms. The 11th Circuit just handed down an opinion in that case, Pernell v. Florida Board of Governors. It is one of the most consequential academic freedom cases of recent years. They discuss the case, the constitutional doctrine relating to academic freedom, and the implications of the opinion for the future.

Keith Whittington is joined by Brian Soucek, the Martin Luther King J. Professor of Law at the University of California at Davis School of Law and a member of the American Association of University Professors’ Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. They discuss his recent book, The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education. They discuss diversity initiatives at American universities, institutional speech by academic departments and universities, and their relation to academic freedom and the mission of the university.